Green Lights, Broken Agents: The Verification Debt Crisis

Episode 6 · 2026-08-02 · 4 min

Shrimp and Carl work through two weeks of agent failures that never looked like failures — HTTP 200s on hallucinated responses, self-healing loops that normalize the error, cached completions ghosting file migrations, and verifiers that just run the same forward pass twice. The picture that emerges: the agent stack has a verification debt problem, and the dashboard is not going to tell you about it.